The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says Dangote refinery’s petrol supply fell below projection in November.
NMDPRA announced the development in its November 2025 ‘State of the Midstream and Downstream Fact Sheet’.
The oil regulator said despite a planned output of 35 million litres of petrol per day, Dangote refinery’s actual domestic evaluation performance was 23.52 million litres per day.
Also, the report showed that Nigeria’s daily petrol consumption dropped to an average of 52.9 million litres in November 2025, down from 56.7 million litres in October 2025.
Despite this drop in consumption, NMDPRA said petrol supply rose to 71 million litres per day in November 2025, compared with 46 million litres per day in October.
Of the total supply in November, the authority said 52.1 million litres were imported, while local refineries contributed 19.5 million litres.
Explaining the sharp increase in petrol supply, the NMDPRA said it was driven by low supply levels recorded in September and October 2025, which fell below national demand thresholds, as well as the need to boost national stock levels ahead of end-of-year festivities.
The authority also cited “imports by the NNPC, the supplier of last resort, in November 2025, to build inventory and further guarantee supply during the peak demand period”.
“Twelve (12) vessels programmed to discharge into October but spilled into November 2025,” the report reads.
NMDPRA added that domestic supply volumes are based on “disport/discharged figures + refinery truck-outs”.
The authority said in November, Nigerians consumed an average of 15.4 million litres of diesel and 2.5 million litres of aviation fuel.
Furthermore, the regulator said Port Harcourt refinery continues to supply 349,000 litres per day of diesel despite being shut down.
On May 24, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited said the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) will shut down for maintenance.
According to NMDPRA, no production activities have occurred since the refinery remained on shut down mode.
“However, evacuation of AGO produced while the refinery was operational before 24th May 2025 continued at an average of 0.349 million litres/day,” the authority said.
According to the report, Warri and Kaduna refineries remain shut down.
In the report, the authority also said Waltersmith refinery’s 5,000 barrel per stream day (bpsd) second train is currently undergoing commissioning.
On modular refineries, the authority said the Waltersmith refinery recorded an average capacity utilisation of 63.32 percent, with an average diesel output of 133,000 litres per day.
Edo refinery, according to the report, operated at an average capacity utilisation of 91.40 percent, producing about 60,000 litres of diesel daily.
Aradel refinery recorded an average capacity utilisation of 62.30 percent, with an average diesel supply of 296,000 litres per day.
However, the NMDPRA noted that OPAC and Duport refineries were not producing during the period under review.
